The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-09-10
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General Nfsbella, p bis speech 1t
Pelonsas last Monday, ~ request,
undertook tlse very difficult task IF
explaining b the people Of ST. Landry
bis reasons zfoF boiling lie Democratic
nomination ii tho Second goagres-
sional District ID tie year 1884, dur
ing which canvass General Nichols
stated On The stump, side By side with
Waralath and Jim Lawis, that be
woald snattc with the honest men Of
slI political opinions, without tiistino-
tian of color, ID defeat the ring, and
Ne are to Judge from The following
explanation made ut 0pelousas, We
nust say that Sen. Nichols still enter
aims The same principles, notWith-
taa3iag he i pieniciug around the
state seeking The nomination At the
ands Of the Democratic party for
Governor Gen. Nichols is reported
saying
hat his action was intended as q
blke to the Faseals who composed
flfe convention and who had sold the
nomination for money, and afterwards,
when an expose WAS made, tried 10
siide behind The respeetabilIty Of Hon
Louis s; Martin. lie would always
Esset bis foat upon raseals, and would
appeal from political conventions dis
rect u the people. He sand be was n
personal friend Of Col. ST. Martins,
and told that gentleman at the time
that q SGT Of fellows, who would claim
his victory as their own, were using
him As a toal. He deciared that he
did not bolt The nomination, not be-
ing d voter in the Second District,
bat admitted making speechesagainst
ST. Martin and hisspnRsoFs, and would
do SO again whenever he thought that
raaeals required a rebuke."
The rassalsnreferred 10 in the above
are Messrs. Fitzpatrick, Alealey, Duffy
aud Davey, better known as the big
Fonr," who are now supporting Gen.
Nichols candidacy, and who are,
since their conversion, represented by
the Reformers as being highly re-
spectacle and representative gentle
men, whose personal characters are
beyond reproacb.
Gen. Nichols SAYS lac informed Col.
st. Martin that be was being made a
tool Of, and warned him that his vic
tory would be claimed by these raseaIs
as their own, which is all very good
as faras it goes, but the General seems
to forget that be is now in the identi-
cal position that he warned his 'tper-
sonal friend ST. Martin" against in
lnI8s4. That be is being dragged
around through the State by a lot Of
professional politicians, who expect
by his eleeuon, to control the affairs
of the State, as they did during his
former administration, and TO reap a
rich harvest in tho way of fat Offices
by the hue and cry Of Nichols anc
Reform.
i What a contrast The man that
few months ago published TO the work
in#aletter to Col. Hollingsworth con
senting to the use of his name befcr
the people of this State for the higbes
Office within their gift, that be wOul'
J accept the nomination for Governor j
rendered him by the Democracy of tb
+ State, going arouBd through the pal
I ishes drumming up delegates to
4 State nominating Convention, some
a thing unprecedented in the HISTORY c
n lhe Democratic party OF this Stat
and an act thst most certainly will /
rebaked by the people by the owe
7 wbeluaing defeat Of Gen. Nichols an
bis sham professions Of Reform, whic
= viii afford the General another oPpo
tunity to ''rebake the rasoals who COL
z posed the convention" and bolt
! Democratic nomination.
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